Re: Steemit.com: Blogging is the new Mining

After using the site for the past few days and observing some of its drama, it's clear that steemit and steem are just plain screwed no matter what.

Care to elaborate? I can't imagine ever being interested enough to spend significant time on the site, so am genuinely curious as to what you experienced there.

https://steemit.com/fantastic/@noganoo/steemit-has-brought-me-out-of-poverty-and-given-me-a-bright-future-in-business-here-is-why-i-think-it-is-the-greatest-platform

I'd take a look at this posting. A guy running 1200+ accounts pisses off a bunch of people, @berniesanders comes and knocks his rep to 0 with a few of his accounts. Dan with 4 million SP comes and upvotes this guy simply because he has a grudge against @berniesanders.

@noganoo's rep shoots back up to 50 from 0 and his post has a valuation of $200 with many people simply jumping on for curation rewards. Other large users who spent their influence trying to flag noganoo's account get pissy and respond with posts such as: https://steemit.com/creepycatman/@berniesanders/dan-is-so-fucking-pathetic and break out their own alt accounts to flag the post eventually sending it back to 0.

What you write is mostly correct except that you can't really 'jump on' for curation rewards. Those rewards go to the first to vote for the past, late arrivals get little or nothing.

I agree Dan's antics are highly unprofessional and destructive (and to some extent Ned too, who seems to have jumped into this whale pissing contest somehow, though I don't know all the details). I was not terribly disappointed to see him leave Steem, although I do have some respect for his technical abilities. Untrustworthy and socially-inept people can still be good programmers, it isn't even necessarily that uncommon a combination. Anyway, what would crypto be without drama?